DETAILED DESCRIPTION
Embodiments of the disclosure are directed to an arrangement of various
elements to form a studio in which items, people, products, clothing, or any
other objects can be photographed and/or filmed to achieve a particular
effect. More specifically, embodiments of the disclosure can allow images
and/or video of an item placed in a studio arrangement as described herein to
be captured with a background that appears, when captured with an image
capture device, as a near perfect white without the need for post-processing,
retouching, or other image manipulation. In other words, images and video of
items captured in the studio arrangement appear against a background that is
equivalent to a white background when converted into a web color hexadecimal
triplet corresponding to a true white. A hexadecimal triplet corresponding to
a true white according to various browser standards, such as hypertext markup
language (HTML), cascading style sheets (CSS), and other standards, can be
represented by three bytes corresponding to a red parameter, a green
parameter, and a blue parameter, each with a maximum value of 255.
Additionally, embodiments of the disclosure also achieve an effect, without
any image manipulation, of an object photographed and/or filmed in the studio
arrangement that appears to be floating in front of the true white background
with a reflection of the object appearing beneath the object.
Prior art solutions for achieving such a result for capturing images and/or
video of objects set against a true white background include solutions that
often involve some type of image retouching, post processing, “green
screen” techniques, or other special effects and image and video
manipulation to achieve the result of an object set against a true white
background. Accordingly, as will be described herein, embodiments of the
present disclosure provide a studio arrangement in which an object can be
photographed and/or filmed, and the images and/or video captured by the
camera achieve the effect noted above without any image manipulation due to
the particular arrangements of the subject, camera, lighting and background.
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